Maj Reginald Hugh Carr DSM, AFC

photo: 1913, aged 26

 

b. 9 September 1886 in Walthamstow, Essex, an 'Aeroplane Engineer'.

Won the the Michelin Cup in 1913 for the year's longest flight (315 miles), and competed in the 1914 Aerial Derby (coming 2nd); the 1914 London-Manchester Race (also 2nd), and the 1914 London-Paris Race.

19 Squadron in WWI, then a test pilot for Grahame-White.

d. 1968.

 
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